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Gold discovered in Sutters' Mill, California draws Chinese Immigrants into flocking to the United States -
The Foreign Miners’ Tax was an Act passed by the United States imposing a tax of $20/month on foreign miners, mainly targeting Chinese and Mexican miners -
Central Pacific Railroad recruits ultimately 15,000 Chinese workers giving them the most difficult and dangerous work while receiving 30-50 percent lower wages than whites -
From 1863 to 1869, roughly 15,000 Chinese workers helped build the Transcontinental Railroad -
The Nationals of Hong Kong did not follow the same movement barriers as mainland Chinese and arrived in the late 1870s. This was the beginning of a second wave of Chinese migration to the United States. -
By the 1870s, there was widespread economic depression in America and jobs became scarce, hostility had also been growing towards Chinese American workers -
Chinese Exclusion Act; prohibits Chinese immigration and in one year Chinese immigrants drops from 40,000 to 23 -
Geary Act; required Chinese Americans to carry a certificate of residence ending the Chinese Exclusion Act -
Senate passes bill continuing Chinese Exclusion laws, extending Geary Act to 1904 -
Earthquake destroys all records in San Francisco, including immigration records. This opens the opportunity for a new surge of Chinese immigrants. The U.S. government creates the Bureau of Immigration.